OperAria Soprano

Repertoire Collection edited by Peter Anton Ling and Marina Sandel [S,pno]

“Wonderful that these soprano volumes from the OperAria project are now available to provide just the right sort of assistance we need.” (Juliane Banse, Patron Soprano)

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“Our goal is to give the user a modern-day, systematically structured vocal coach who satisfies the demands of present-day theater practice. At long last a consistent repertoire and a well-ordered conflation of respective audition arias for all vocal genres.” (Peter Anton Ling and Marina Sandel, editors)

OperAria – repertoire anthology of opera arias according to vocal criteria (range, tessitura, specifics, type of aria) with due regard to practical aspects of musical and theatrical nature (style, era, role type, national provenance)

with comments on the arias

information on the composer, the librettist, the work, the range and of versions or casting
a short synopsis of the contents illuminating the basic dramatic constellation in the context of the opera’s plot
an evaluation from the singer’s point of view

with “phonetic assistant” and “text assistant”

aria texts in the original language spoken by native speakers as an audio file (mp3)
aria texts in German and English translations as a text file (pdf)
available on CD with volume 1 and 2, for download under more information to volume 3 and 4.

1. Christoph Willibald Gluck	Qual vita / Che fiero momento	(Euridice – Orfeo ed Euridice)
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Ruhe sanft	(Zaide – Zaide)
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Giunse alfin il momento / Deh vieni non tardar	(Susanna – Le nozze di Figaro)
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Ach, ich fühl’s	(Pamina – Die Zauberflöte)
5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	S’altro che lacrime	(Servilia – La clemenza di Tito)
6. Ludwig van Beethoven	O wär’ ich schon mit dir vereint	(Marzelline – Fidelio)
7. Albert Lortzing	Auf des Lebens raschen Wogen	(Baronin – Der Wildschütz)
8. Vincenzo Bellini	Eccomi in lieta vesta / Oh! quante volte	(Giulietta – I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
9. Friedrich von Flotow	Letzte Rose	(Lady Harriet – Martha)
10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Porgi amor	(La Contessa – Le nozze di Figaro)
11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	E Susanna non vien! / Dove sono i bei momenti	(La Contessa – Le nozze di Figaro)
12. Gioachino Rossini	Sombre forêt	(Mathilde – Guillaume Tell)
13. Giuseppe Verdi	Come in quest’ora bruna	(Amelia – Simon Boccanegra)
14. Charles Gounod	Que vois-je là ? / Ah ! je ris de me voir	(Marguerite – Faust)
15. Jacques Offenbach	Elle a fui, la tourterelle !	(Antonia – Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
16. Bedřich Smetana	Och, jaký žal! / Ten lásky sen	(Marěnka – Prodana nevěsta)
17. Georges Bizet	Je dis, que rien ne m’épouvante	(Micaëla – Carmen)
18. Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky	Scena pis’ma	(Tatjana – Evgenij Onegin)
19. Ruggero Leoncavallo	Qual fiamma / Stridono lassù	(Nedda – I Pagliacci)
20. Giacomo Puccini	Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì	(Mimì – La bohème)
21. Giacomo Puccini	Chi il bel sogno di Doretta	(Magda – La rondine)
22. Gustave Charpentier	Depuis le jour	(Louise – Louise)
23. Pietro Mascagni	Son pochi fiori	(Suzel – L’amico Fritz)
24. Benjamin Britten	Embroidery in childhood	(Ellen Orford – Peter Grimes)